Former Swiss skiing star shot dead

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A former Swiss skiing star has been killed in a multiple shooting at her parents’ home in the Alpine village of Les Crosets, police said today.

Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, who won several World Cup races, and her brother Alain were killed late last night in an attack which left her mother seriously injured. Their mother was in a serious condition after the shooting.

Rey-Bellet’s father and her two-year-old son, Kevin, had been taken into safe keeping, police said.

Jean-Marie Bornet, a police spokesman in the canton of Valais, told Swiss state radio that a possible domestic crime “could not be